"primarily identified with the repertoire of the blond bombshells of the burlesque runway."" Ben Gross of the New York ""Daily News"" opined that popular music ""has reached its lowest depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley. ... Elvis, who rotates his pelvis ... gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos"". Ed Sullivan, whose own variety show was the nation's most popular, declared him ""unfit for family viewing"". To Presley's displeasure, he soon found himself being referred to as ""Elvis the Pelvis"","
"Elvis (1968 TV program) Singer Presents...Elvis (commonly referred to as the '68 Comeback Special) is a television special starring singer Elvis Presley, aired by NBC on December 3, 1968. It marked Presley's return to live performance after seven years during which his career was centered in the movie business. Presley was unhappy with his distance from musical trends of the time, and the low-quality movie productions he was involved in. Initially planned as a Christmas special by the network, and Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker, producer Bob Finkel transformed the idea. He hired director Steve Binder to update Presley's sound,"
"Elvis in Concert Elvis In Concert is a posthumous 1977 TV special starring Elvis Presley. It was Elvis' third and final TV special, following ""Elvis"" (a.k.a. ""The '68 Comeback Special"") and ""Aloha From Hawaii"". It was filmed during Presley's final tour in the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, on June 19, 1977, and Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 21, 1977. It was broadcast on CBS on October 3, 1977, two months after Presley's death. It was transmitted by the BBC in the United Kingdom on June 9, 1978. Unlike the majority of Elvis' programs, it is unlikely to be commercially"
"memorable catchphrases in TV history: ""Tonight (presenter name), I'm going to be..."" and was named most popular entertainment show at the National Television Awards in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. The most impersonated stars are Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Cher, George Michael, Celine Dion, Kylie Minogue and Madonna. In February 1990, Leslie Crowther was chosen as the host of the show which began airing on 21 July 1990. Crowther hosted the first three series, and a Christmas Special in 1991. At the time of his car accident in October 1992, he was booked to record an Elvis Presley special hosted"
"aired the show if Presley hadn't died two months later, making it his final recorded performance (and making his records big sellers again)."" The fan site Elvis Information Network deemed the program ""a challenging special to watch... The pudginess of his face and his substantial girth is a long way from the panther like sleekness exhibited in """", a documentary about Presley released in 1970."" It was the highest rated prime time program of the week upon its airing, with a 33.0 Nielsen rating representing 24.1 million homes. This special has never been released on VHS or DVD, and Elvis'"
"it was simulcast to 28 European countries, and in April an extended version finally aired in the U.S., where it won a 57 percent share of the TV audience. Over time, Parker's claim that it was seen by one billion or more people would be broadly accepted, but that figure appeared to have been sheer invention. Presley's stage costume became the most recognized example of the elaborate concert garb with which his latter-day persona became closely associated. As described by Bobbie Ann Mason, ""At the end of the show, when he spreads out his American Eagle cape, with the full"
"any doubts about his return, they were soon gone when he witnessed the turnout along the route. Frank Sinatra, who had declared Presley and rock and roll a disgrace in the 1950s, was keen to have him appear on his show. Parker, not one to forget harsh criticism, stated that the fee would be $125,000 (US$ in dollars) for two songs, a total of eight minutes on screen; Sinatra himself was receiving a lower sum for the whole show, but he agreed. The show, entitled “Welcome Home, Elvis”, was Presley's first national television appearance since ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" in"
"television on May 12 as a guest on """"—ironic for both stars, given Sinatra's not-so-distant excoriation of rock and roll. Also known as ""Welcome Home Elvis"", the show had been taped in late March, the only time all year Presley performed in front of an audience. Parker secured an unheard-of $125,000 fee for eight minutes of singing. The broadcast drew an enormous viewership. ""G.I. Blues"", the soundtrack to Presley's first film since his return, was a number one album in October. His first LP of sacred material, ""His Hand in Mine"", followed two months later. It reached number 13 on"
"dropped in to pay a casual visit accompanied by a girlfriend, Marilyn Evans. He was, at the time, the biggest name in show business, having hit the top of the singles charts five times, and topping the album charts twice in the preceding 12-month period. Less than four months earlier, he had appeared on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"", pulling an unheard-of 83% of the television audience, which was estimated at 55 million, the largest in history up to that time. After chatting with Philips in the control room, Presley listened to the playback of Perkins’ session, which he pronounced to"
"""Ed Sullivan Show"" six times. In contrast, Diana Ross & the Supremes, frequent guests on Sullivan's show, debuted their then-release and eventually controversial #1 hit song ""Love Child"" on Sullivan's show, but nothing about its title or its content about a woman in poverty having a child out of wedlock (which was exceptionally taboo to mention on television at the time) seemed to faze Sullivan, the show's producers, or the network. Highlights: 9/09/1956: Elvis Presley's first appearance yielding an 82.6 percentage share, the highest in television history for any program up to the present. Viewers: 60.2 million Source: Trendex, the"
"precursor of Nielsen. 2/09/1964: The Beatles's first appearance yielding a 45.3 rating. Viewers: 73.7 million Source: Nielsen. Other noteworthy ratings 02/16/1964: 43.8 rating The Beatles's second appearance. Source: Nielsen. 09/09/1956: 43.7 rating Elvis Presley's first appearance. Source: Trendex. The show's immense popularity has been the target of numerous parodies. These include: The Ed Sullivan Show The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the ""CBS Sunday Night Movie"". In"
"Stage Show (TV series) Stage Show was a popular music variety series broadcast in the United States on the CBS Television Network and originally hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Produced by Jackie Gleason, it included the first national television appearances by rock music icon Elvis Presley. The series began as a one-hour show on July 3, 1954 as a summer replacement for ""The Jackie Gleason Show"". Gleason brought it back in the fall of 1955 as a half-hour show and scheduled it from 8–8:30 p.m. ET in the time slot prior"
"The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis Welcome Home Elvis was a 1960 television special on the ABC Television Network starring Frank Sinatra and featuring Elvis Presley in his first televised appearance following his military service in West Germany. The special, commonly known as ""Welcome Home Elvis"", was officially titled ""It's Nice to Go Traveling"". This was Presley's first TV appearance in three years. This was also Frank Sinatra's fourth and final Timex sponsored outing for the 1959-1960 television season. The special also featured Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Nancy Sinatra, who later starred with Elvis"
"For both shows, Presley was dressed in a white ""American Eagle"" jumpsuit designed by Bill Belew. The broadcast was directed by Marty Pasetta, who was then in charge of directing the Oscar ceremonies. Audience tickets for the January 14 concert and its January 12 pre-broadcast rehearsal show carried no charge. Each audience member was asked to pay whatever he or she could afford. The performance and concert merchandise sales raised $75,000 for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in Hawaii. According to Elvis Presley Enterprises, between 1 and 1.5 billion people watched the one-hour broadcast live. However, this would appear to"
"Jackie Gleason's CBS television program. The success of that television appearance led Gleason to produce a weekly variety program, ""Stage Show"", hosted by the brothers on CBS from 1954 to 1956. Elvis Presley appeared on six of the telecasts. These were Presley's first appearances on national TV. Jimmy took over leadership of the orchestra after Tommy's death. Jimmy survived his brother by only a few months and died of throat cancer, aged 53, in New York City. Broadcasts of Jimmy Dorsey and The Fabulous Dorsey Orchestra on NBC Bandstand survive from December 25, and December 31, 1956. At least two"
"during the summer of 1977; the special was filmed during Presley's final tour at stops in Omaha, Nebraska (on June 19) and Rapid City, South Dakota (on June 21 of that year). CBS aired the special, ""Elvis in Concert"", on October 3, 1977, nearly two months after Presley's death in his Graceland mansion on August 16. , CBS has 16 owned-and-operated stations, and current and pending affiliation agreements with 227 additional television stations encompassing 49 states, the District of Columbia, two U.S. possessions, Bermuda and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The network has a national reach of 96.52% of all"
"Elvis (1990 TV series) Elvis (also known as Elvis – Good Rockin' Tonight) is an American drama series about the early life of Elvis Presley that aired on ABC from February 6 until May 19, 1990 before its cancellation due to low ratings. These ten episodes, along with three unaired episodes, were edited into a four-hour mini-series titled Elvis: The Early Years. The series starred Michael St. Gerard as Presley, Jesse Dabson, Blake Gibbons, Millie Perkins, and Billy ""Green"" Bush. Elvis voice-impersonator Ronnie McDowell provided the singing voice for St. Gerard on the series. ""Elvis: Good Rockin' Tonight"" was a"
"October 1956, as some 55 million Americans watched Ed Sullivan's popular television variety show, with the then 21-year-old Elvis Presley headlining for the second time, Sullivan asked viewers to send aid to Hungarian refugees fleeing from the effects of the Soviet invasion. Presley himself made another request for donations during his third and last appearance on Sullivan's show on 6 January 1957. Presley then dedicated a song for the finale, which he thought fitted the mood of the time, namely the gospel song ""Peace in the Valley"". By the end of 1957, these contributions, distributed by the Geneva-based International Red"
"the group, making Jimmy the co-leader and featured soloist. In 1954, comedian Jackie Gleason chose them and their band as the summer replacement hosts for his weekly CBS Television varitey series. The program, ""Stage Show,"" was a hit and returned in the fall of 1955 for a full season giving other big band leaders hope in a business that was steadily declining. Rock music history was made on ""Stage Show"" in January 1956 with the network television debut of Elvis Presley. Presley, promoting his early recordings for RCA Victor, made a total of six guest appearances. Competitive ratings from NBC's"
"51% of the television viewing audience, and was seen in more American households than the July 1969 Moon landing. Eventually it was seen in about forty countries by one billion to 1.5 billion people. In 1988, Presley's original 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In December 2004, ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranked it No. 19 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the highest ranked of Presley's eleven entries. In March 2005, ""Q"" magazine placed Presley's version at number 55 of Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Presley's version is listed as"
"In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special ""Elvis"", which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, ""Aloha from Hawaii"". Years of prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially successful in many genres,"
"on network television in the US, and likely the world's second television sitcom after British series ""Pinwright's Progress""), ""Texaco Star Theatre"" (the variety show that made Milton Berle TV's first star) and ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" (which would run until 1971, with performances by Elvis Presley and The Beatles being among the highest-viewed moments in American television history). Few recordings of live television from this season were preserved. Among the surviving kinescopes are six episodes of ""Kraft Television Theatre"" from 1948 (March 3, March 17, March 24, March 31, April 21, and May 5) held by the Library of Congress,"
"1968, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It placed first in the Nielsen television ratings for the week ending on December 8, 1968, displacing ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"" which dropped to the second position. 42 percent of the total television audience viewed it, making it the most watched show of the season. The special's soundtrack was released shortly after. It reached number eight on ""Billboard's"" Top LPs chart, and by July 1969, it was certified gold. ""The New York Times"" opened its review describing Presley's breakthrough, and his influence on the musicians of the time. It observed that on this special,"
"free publicity around the world. Las Vegas would also become the self-proclaimed Entertainment Capital of the World. Of all the headliners to perform at the Hilton or the Flamingo, the most successful and spectacular was Elvis Presley. After a decade in the movies, he began performing in front of live audiences again in 1969 at the opening of the International (a few years later renamed the Las Vegas Hilton). He went on to star at the Las Vegas Hilton two months a year—performing two shows a night, seven nights a week—until shortly before his death in 1977. Presley set a"
"the television audience. Actor Charles Laughton hosted the show, filling in while Sullivan was recovering from a car accident. Presley appeared in two segments that night from CBS Television City in Los Angeles. According to Elvis legend, Presley was shot only from the waist up. Watching clips of the Allen and Berle shows with his producer, Sullivan had opined that Presley ""got some kind of device hanging down below the crotch of his pants—so when he moves his legs back and forth you can see the outline of his cock. ... I think it's a Coke bottle. ... We just"
"plays his mother. Matt Dillon and Scott Valentine were the first two choices for the role of Elvis. Michael St. Gerard's audition was a line read, and him lip syncing to ""Baby, Let's Play House"". He was flown to Memphis the next day to start filming. The brown-eyed St. Gerard refused to wear blue contacts for the role. Elvis (1990 TV series) Elvis (also known as Elvis – Good Rockin' Tonight) is an American drama series about the early life of Elvis Presley that aired on ABC from February 6 until May 19, 1990 before its cancellation due to low"
"be pure hype, originally speculated by Elvis' manager Colonel Tom Parker in 1972. The total population of the countries which took the show live certainly didn't add up to over 1 billion. After the concert ended, Presley returned to the empty arena with the TCB Band after the fans left to record five songs for the U.S. airing of the show, including Gordon Lightfoot's ""Early Morning Rain,"" along with some songs from the movie ""Blue Hawaii""; including ""Hawaiian Wedding Song,"" ""No More,"" ""Ku-U-I-Po,"" and of course the title song. All but ""No More"" were used in the telecast. The album"
"in alternative radio stations playing his records. In an era when radio stations were shifting to an all-music format, in reaction to competition from television, profit-conscious radio station owners learned quickly when sponsors bought more advertising time on new all ""rock and roll"" stations, some of which reached enormous markets at night with clear channel signals from AM broadcasts. Presley remains an immediately recognizable face even amongst groups not normally recognized as his fans. In 2008, an 1,800-year-old Roman bust described as bearing a ""striking"" resemblance to Elvis was displayed ahead of an intended auction. A spokesman for the auctioneers"
"29.2% of televisions in the 56 largest media markets in the United States were tuned to the inauguration, the largest audience since Ronald Reagan's first inauguration in 1981 and nearly double the viewership of the 2005 inauguration of George W. Bush. The Raleigh-Durham market had the largest TV audience with more than 51% of households tuned into the day's events, a number attributed in part to a snowstorm that kept people inside and in part to the large African American population in that community. Of the top 10 media markets in terms of viewership, four were in North Carolina, two"
"Elvis and the Beauty Queen Elvis and the Beauty Queen is a 1981 American made-for-television drama film starring Don Johnson and Stephanie Zimbalist. It aired on NBC on March 1, 1981 at 9pm. Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for four of the last five years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last"
"Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. sing a duet together in this show: ""Shall We Dance"", after Davis did some impersonations. Davis also sang ""There's A Boat Dat's Leaving Soon For New York"" earlier that show. The show was a great success grabbing 41.5 percent of the ratings. Excerpts from this show appear in Warner Bros.' 1981 documentary film ""This Is Elvis"". On July 15, 1959 it was announced that Presley, upon his release from the US Army, would be making his first television appearance on Frank Sinatra's fourth and final Timex-sponsored variety show. For the special, originally titled ""Frank Sinatra's"
"at the CBS Stage Show hosted by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey that was broadcast live from the Studio 50 in New York City. On January 28, February 4, 11 and 18, as well as on March 17 and 24, Jones played second trumpet in the studio band that supported 21-year-old Elvis Presley in his first six television appearances. Presley sang ""Heartbreak Hotel"", which became his first No. 1 record and the ""Billboard"" magazine Pop Record of the year. Soon after, as trumpeter and musical director for Dizzy Gillespie, Jones went on tour of the Middle East and South America sponsored"
"Sinatra was questioned about whether or not he had changed his mind about rock and roll music. He suggested he hadn't by simply responding ""The kid's been away two years, and I get the feeling he really believes in what he's doing."" On March 26, at 6.15pm, taping for the show took place at the Fontainebleau Hotel. It was Presley's first appearance on television in over three years, and his first serious performance since 1957, making Presley nervous about how he would be received. Colonel Parker, perhaps due to nerves of his own, had arranged for as many Presley fans"